- - Q. Rabbi please kindly explain what are the sources, issues and restrictions of valentine's day?
A. Valentine’s Day, a holiday celebrated by many on February 14, as commonly designated in our liberal society, is the day when lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts.
Given their similarities, it has been suggested that the holiday has origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia held in mid-February. The festival, which celebrated the coming of spring included fertility rites and the pairing off of women with men by lottery. At the end of the 5th century.
Pope Gelasius 1 forbade the celebration of Lupercalia and it is sometimes attributed with replacing it with St. Valentine’s Day, but the true origin of the holiday is vague at best. Valentine’s Day did not come to be celebrated as a day of romance until about the 14th century.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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